SUNSET: 
S&T's New Single-Issue Magazine
Sky & Telescope has just produced a slim but extremely useful publication.
Stargazing versus Hiking
It's not easy to reconcile the demands of strenuous backpacking by day and intensive stargazing at night.
Stellafane at its Best
There's star parties and star parties — and then there's Stellafane. Inaugurated in 1926, the Stellafane Convention is probably the longest-running star party in North America, if not the world.
Corrected Light-Pollution Atlas
New work indicates that the venerable and highly respected World Atlas of Aritifical Night Sky Brightness was systematically distorted by snow cover when the underlying satellite data was obtained.
All of S&T on DVD
Rumors have been flying around for months, but now it's official. Starting today, we're taking orders for The Complete Sky & Telescope: Seven Decade Collection on DVD-ROMS.
Earth's Past and the Search for Habitable Planets
Ever since Galileo first turned his telescope to the night sky, people have dreamed of discovering life on other planets besides our own. For centuries, very little progress was made. In the mid-twentieth century, after the canals on Mars had proved to be illusions, extraterrestrial life seemed more remote than…
RTMC 2010, Part II
Amateur telescope making still plays a central role in our hobby.
Palomar Observatory
Palomar Observatory is still alive and well 62 years after the famous 200-inch Hale Telescope became operational.
Travel Scopes
It's tough to reconcile all the different constraints placed on a telescope for the airplane-traveling stargazer.
NEAF 2010 Videos Are Here!
Check out our videos from the 19th annual Northeast Astronomy Forum, one of the world's largest telescope shows.
Come to NEAF April 17-18
Make plans to attend the largest annual astronomy trade show in America: the Northeast Astronomy Forum & Telescope Show.
Stargazing and Science Fiction
Logically, science fiction is completely unrelated to stargazing — but human beings don't live by logic alone. In fact there's an intimate relationship between these two pastimes.
See Pluto in 2010
In 2010, Pluto passes in front of one of the densest star clouds in the sky, and also in front of a dark nebula that obscures almost all the background stars.
The Sun is Back!
After a couple of relatively dormant years, the Sun is showing signs of major activity again.
Debating Human Spaceflight
On March 15th a distinguished panel discussed the future of human spaceflight at New York's Hayden Planetarium.
Binocular Blogs
Binocular stargazing has a peaceful, organic quality that's hard to achieve through a telescope. Here's a list of some blogs the author has written on this subject.
Zodiacal Light in the Evening
The zodiacal light is on its best display in the Northern Hemisphere on moonless evenings from February through April.
Stargazing Blogs
Here's an index to the Stargazing blogs written from 2007 to 2011.
Index to Stargazing Blogs
Nobody else may care about blogs that I wrote three years ago — but I do, because I like to hyperlink to older blogs when I write new ones. So here, in case anybody's interested, is a list of all Stargazing blogs from 2007 through 2010: 2010 Oct 26, 2010Guest…
The Belt of Venus
This pink border lining Earth's shadow opposite the just-set or about-to-rise Sun is often seen but rarely recognized.
